Just wanted to throw a few more things your way:
1). Wrote this last time, but please send your child with a booster seat tomorrow for our field trip if they require one. This is obviously extremely important.
2). Boy was it a cold day! We really try and not have inside recess unless it is pouring rain (the kids just really need to get their energy out). A lot of our kids were pretty cold during recess and at this point I am not allowing inside recess for kids until we have created a strong level of responsibility. Please have them bundle up!
3). On that note, for those of you that are not yet familiar with our levels of responsibility system, when a student reaches Level 3 they have the option of inside recess if 1). there are multiple students staying in and 2). they have parent permission to do so. If you have any questions about this (as we head into our cold and wet days) please contact me.
4). School lunch was awesome today. Kudos to Elizabeth and Beth. I heard we served over a 100 nutritious meals! If your child wants one of these meals, please sign up on the sheet by the front desk. The spaghetti today was great.
5). This can be a touchy subject, but I've noticed over the past couple of weeks a lot of discussion about crushes and boyfriends/girlfriends amongst our students. This is totally natural as all our youngsters are getting to know each other and still experiencing the excitement of a new school year and a new class. We had a talk today about how all of this is perfectly normal but that it can be a distraction and can lead to feelings being hurt/students feeling embarrassed. We agreed that discussions of such things should not enter Trillium. Its not a crisis by any means, but I would like us all to be on the same page. Hope thats not too awkward.
6). Today we started planning the makings of our space ships that will launch us into space and start us on our travel through time. We could use some cardboard to create these amazing machines. If you have any to donate, that would be wonderful. The bigger the better. Smaller boxes tend to get wasted and clutter the classroom.
Thanks again for all of your help!
Best,
Whitney
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